[Radiant] Combining Radiant with a Rails App

[Harvey Bernstein]

Andrew, 

Thanks for your suggestion.  The more I thought about my original idea the
less I liked.  It just seemed to get more complicated which I definitely
wanted to avoid.  My existing rails app uses a different caching method and
lots of Ajax.  

I now think it would be better to keep the CMS and my app separate. I think
in the first instance, I am just going to end up with duplicate layout and
just share the main CSS file.

Thanks for your input, it has given me something to think about.

Harvey


On 7/7/06 00:33, "Andrew Hodgkinson" <ahodgkin at rowing.org.uk> wrote:

> Harvey Bernstein wrote:
> 
>> Here's the thing.  I want to keep DRY by making use of Radiant's layout
>> facilities, user management, tags (in particular breadcrumbs) and
>> snippets.
> 
> I'm doing something broadly similar. I have a collection of Rails
> applications (RForum, Instiki, Typo etc.) all sharing some layout
> fragments with a global stylesheet defining the bulk of visual
> properties and custom stylesheets to cope with the quirks and different
> class/ID names used in the different application RHTML files. Some
> customisation of RHTML files was required in addition to this.
> 
> For less dynamic pages, Radiant appears to be just what I need - a small
> team wants to edit effectively static content. Since Radiant has the
> concept of layouts and snippets, things like the shared header, footer
> and static sidebar content should probably be defined as snippets within
> Radiant. What I'd like to do is have these end up exported into the
> filesystem when they are changed, so that while Radiant keeps its own
> copy in the database, a synchronised copy appears in a shared location
> (accessed primarily by symlinks currently) so other parts of the site
> maintain layout. To do this I believe I will have to modify Radiant to
> save snippets to the filesystem as well as into the database when
> updated or created anew.
> 
> This may be an approach you could use - turn the idea of incorporating
> your Views into Radiant on its head, and instead use exported bits of
> Radiant content in your other Views.


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